Navid Hassanpour, a student at Yale argues that social media hinders revolutions and slows them down, because of a lack of "face-to-face communication." He explains that people won't be motivated to actually be apart of what is happening, and will instead get distracted by everything else that is going on the internet.
On the other hand, Wael Ghonim, a Google employee who helped organize Egypt's revolution over Facebook, explains how these mediums of social interaction helped the revolution by simply stating, "'If you want to liberate a society, just give them the internet.'" Personally, I agree with his statement. The internet obviously helps spread ideas and news a whole lot quicker than say the evening news or tomorrow's newspaper, but more importantly when the government has to shut down something because it's threatened by the ideas that are being passed on you know that particular something is powerful.
